Of course there's *some* heat generated, but the point is, this guy saw a couple of loops in my cable that hadn't been straightened out and boldly declared that it was a safety hazard. It's not as if I had a thousand foot roll of cable energized. The whole cable assembly was 25 feet, and I had most of it uncoiled.

That having been said, building my own induction cooker sounds like a fun little project... <<grin>>

We have this country club out here, called Butte Creek Country Club.
I am, in spite of my love of golf, not joining (was invited, attended a lunch
as a prospective member, etc.).

I let them know the other day. They asked why. I told them that I thought
their attitude was "escessively snooty."

The guy to whom I was speaking was very puzzled. So he said everyone in the
club was reasonably wealthy, bla bla bla.

I said:
You folks have absolutely nothing justifying your snooty attitude. You are
nothing more than a bunch of hick rice farmers that only learned golf because
it reminded you of taking a broom to swat the dogshit out of the way so you
could walk into your houses...

2015-10-23 08:32 from IGnatius T Foobar @uncnsrd (Uncensored)
You should have joined anyway and acted like a gavone there until they

either toned down their attitude or kicked you out.

As much fun as that would have been, it would have been *expensive* fun.
Most private/country clubs out here have this Initiation Fee and in most cases
it is at least $10K. That's a lot of money just to act like the Italian equivalent
of an asshole, fun though it would be.

There are all sorts of places where people are talking about living in converted
shipping containers, trucks, etc.

The thing is, if you're just trying to save money on rent, the actual construction
of the "building" is not quite as relevant as the fact that you've got it
dropped into some low-cost location. In effect, you're living in a trailer
park. You could probably live even cheaper by simply buying a trailer and
dropping it into a trailer park in the most conventional way.

( [4~[I suppose there's the whole "look at my recycled house" angle, but
considering that a house isn't really a disposable item, that's not really
something most people are concerned with either.

Yeah I suppose so. It's like those silly "tiny house" things that are all
the rage on TV these days. Great, you've built yourself a mobile home, but
without all of the integration and safety features normally associated with
mobile homes. I'd love to see how many of these stick-built mobile homes
get damaged or completely collapse while being transported around in ways
that they're not designed to handle.

And sure you're more energy efficient, but you could do the same by just
buying a conventional but small house.

Shipping containers are best used for [redacted before I get on even more
FBI watch lists].

I read a story last night about how Christmas LED lights can interfere with your wifi. I tried doing a little more research and from the results I saw it seemed like a sensational story news departments tend to do this time of the year. I wanted to research this more. I did notice that I have one "dead spot" in a room, and could never figure out why. No mater how I moved the phone in that area it had problems connecting, staying connected, and I seemed to think that the problems were more at night. There is a LED table lamp in that room plugged into the same circuit (not socket) as the charger. I tested this, lamp off wifi good, lamp on wifi problems. This was a cheaper LED unknown name brand bulb I purchased at Walmart a few years ago when LED bulbs were still way up there in price. Maybe it had poor shielding.

I have a very busy week/weekend ahead of me. I was wondering if the uncensored crew knew anything about this LED/wifi problem.

Well, first thing would be to test with and without the charger plugged in to the phone. It is entirely possible that something is causing noise in your AC lines that is following the cable to the phone, even if it isn't directly damaging the 2.4GHz band.

I have LED lighting all over my house. Almost every single bulb is LED, my Christmas tree is LED. I have never had a problem with Wifi.

The problem I have had is that my treadmill knocks my DSL modem offline (or causes severe packet loss). Nothing wireless about either of those devices, but some judicious use of AC line filters has helped that issue.

It is possible that severe noise in AC could disrupt 2.4GHz, but I would be highly skeptical of this, particularly given the lengths of wire we're talking about for Christmas lights, and the amount of power they draw. Your kitchen microwave or a table saw or something is much more likely to cause issues.

LEDs work with phase cutting techniques - it cuts the AC into slices - you start with a sine wave, which then gets cut off, maybe later in the wave back on, and all that with very steep curves.

If you know fourier analysis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_analysis that explains that you stack many sines in different frequencies to get these angular waves. Some of these are then in the 2.4GHz range and disturb reception

If you add some capacitators and some tiny coil you can grind these rough edges and shield emitted frequencies using ferrites.

The engine control of the thread mill does similar. The coils in the engine has even more power, if its a motor with phase rotating brushes it may produce even more radio noise.

Well then, all you have to do is spend thousands of dollars on a good power
conditioner and you're all set :)

I'd be interested in hearing what brands of LED do this and what brands do
not. I plan on only buying LED bulbs from now on, but not until my existing
supply of CFL's runs out (when I moved into this house, the power company
gave me some $$ and a box of CFL's for trading in an old refrigerator). [4[4